Research news

The Program, launched on December 12, 2018 in partnership with the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation and the École Polytechnique Foundation, will help develop collaborations between researchers and doctors, with a view to improving future healthcare services.

The BepiColombo space mission was launched on the night of October 19-20, 2018 aboard an Ariane 5 vehicle from the spaceport in Kourou, Guiana. The Plasma Physics Laboratory is responsible for two of the instruments on board the MIO probe set to explore the magnetosphere of Mercury.

École Polytechnique and Arkema have joined forces to create an international education and research chair for innovative materials. The chair is led by Julie Diani, a CNRS research director working at the l’X Solid Mechanics Laboratory.

Professor and member of the Haut-collège of École Polytechnique, Gérard Mourou, has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. He shares this award with Donna Strickland for developping a method for generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses. The Swedish Academy particularly highlighted the use of this technique in the medical field.

On October 10, 2018, a community of scholars will convene in Paris for an event titled, “Bridging Ideas”, in order to exchange on some of the critical challenges the world is currently facing, including overcrowding in cities, water shortages, unemployment, and electricity distribution and transportation issues.